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Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.
George Saunders
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George Saunders
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 2
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The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
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In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like perverse versus pure. But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.
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Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
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Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
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The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.
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To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.
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My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.
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I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.
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So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing bad news that life is short and art is long.
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I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue [all men are created equal] has never been properly addressed and it hasn't gone away.
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You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.
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I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
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I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.
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The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled poor. He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.
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